A CORRECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 275, 14 November 1908, Page 6

A CORRECTION.

To the I'Mitor. Sir,—ln your otherwise excellent report of last '.light'* debate an error* occurs which 1 shall be glad if you Wdl allow inc to correct. "Mr. Anstic" was not a chemist of Ciuinecticuti there is here « curious mixture of two persons. Dr. Anstie was a leadiug Engll-.il physiologist of the last century, whose " article on " Final Experiments on the y . Elimination of Alcohol from the Body" -J I quoted from in his appeal to teetotal J lecturers and writers not to continue to assert that alcohol was a poison after his 14 years' experiments had conclusively proved otherwise. Tile Connecticut , gentleman was. Professor Atwater, of Wesleyun University, Conn., who under the patronage of that institution and tlm committee of fifty made the very remarkable and conclusive experiment! , to which 1 ulludcd as attesting the name truth as to Ihe value of alcohol in certain circumstances. In his characteristic way the Rev. Mr. lsitt slandered : this noted scientist, tho committee of fifty, and various others —the author of "The Heresjs of Teetotaliam" among ' them—who dflie tu differ from him t and I tope to reply to these diatribes at Tanikl on Monday night next.—l am, &c., B. ENROTH.